Physical Prototypes

MTRAN

Institute:


Intelligent Systems Institute, AIST
The Distributed System Design Research Group
Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Akiya Kamimura, Shigeru Kokaji

Research issues:

Mechanical Self-Reconfiguration, Locomotion

Approach:

3D, Physical and Simulation

URL:

http://staff.aist.go.jp/e.yoshida/test/top-e.htm


Robotic Molecule

Institute:

The Dartmouth Robotics Lab

Self-reconfiguring Robots at The Dartmouth Robotics Lab
Daniela Rus

Research issues:

Self-reconfiguration, Locomotion

Approach:

Physical (Prototype), Simulator, 3D

URL:

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~rus/self-reconfig.html and http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~robotlab/robotlab/robots/molecule/index.html

Crystalline Robots

Institute:

MIT and Dartmouth College
Marsette Vona

Research issues:

Planning, Self-Reconfiguration

Approach:

2D Physical system (many prototypes), Simulation (3D)

URL:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/~vona/xtal/



Polypod and PolyBot

Institute:

Stanford and Xerox PARC
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Mark Yim

Research issues:

Locomotion, Self-reconfiguration

Approach:

Physical and Simulation

URL:

http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/modrobots/polypod/polypod.html and http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/modrobots/polybot/polybot.html


I-Cubes project

A Modular Self-Reconfiguring Bipartite Robotic System

Institute:

Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory
Carnegie Mellon University
Cem Unsal

Research issues:

Planning, Self reconfiguration

Approach:

3D Physical system, Simulation

URL:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~unsal/research/ices/cubes/



Distributed Self-reconfiguration of 3-D Homogeneous Modular Structure

Institute:

The Inauguration of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (Japan)
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
Systems Engineering Lab
Eiichi Yoshida

Research issues:

Mechanical self-reconfigurability,

Approach:

3D Physical and Simulation

URL:

http://www.mel.go.jp/soshiki/buturi/system/yoshida/3dunit/3dunit-e.htm



Fracta

Two Dimensional Self-Assembling/Self-Repairing Machine

Institute:

The Inauguration of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (Japan)
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
Systems Engineering Lab
Satoshi Murata

Research issues:

Self-Reconfigurability

Approach:

2D, Physical

URL:

http://www.mel.go.jp/soshiki/buturi/system/murata/fractum-e.htm



Conro Robots

Institute:

USC/ISI
LA, USA
Peter Will, Wei-Min Shen

Research issues:

Coordination (Hormones), Mechanical Self-reconfiguration

Approach:

Physical and Simulation

URL:

http://www.isi.edu/conro/index.html

Metamorphic Robot

Institute:

Johns Hopkins University,
Robot Kinematics and Motion Planning Lab,
Intelligent and Inexpensive Solutions
Gregory S. Chirikjian(?)

Research issues:

Molecular Biology (Proteins), Self-Reconfiguration, Inverse Kinematics, Simulation

Approach:

2D, Physical and Simulation

URL:

http://custer.me.jhu.edu/metamorphic/meta.html


Fractal Robots

Institute:

Robodyne Cybernetics LTD
Mr. J. Michael

Research issues:

Private company

Approach:

Physical, 3D, Self-Reconfigurable

URL:

http://www.stellar.demon.co.uk/new/index.html


Amoeba Robot Projects

Institute:


Autonomous Systems Engineering Laboratory
Hokkaido University
Nobuyuki Takahashi, Takashi Nagai, Hiroshi Yokoi, and Yukinori Kakazu

Research issues:

Approach:

URL:

http://junji.complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/projects/AmoebaRobot/index.html


Genobots

Institute:


Dynamic & Evolutionary Machine Organization Lab
Brandeis University
Gregory S. Hornby, Jordan Pollack

Research issues:

Approach:

URL:

http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/pr/evo_design/evo_design.html

Swarm-bots

Institute:


IRIDIA
IDSIA
EPFL
CNR-IP

Research issues:

Design and implementation of self-organising and self-assembling artefacts

Approach:

Hardware, simulator, control

URL:

http://www.swarm-bots.org/

Papers

  • Hosokawa, K.; Tsujimori, T.; Fujii, T.; Kaetsu, H.; Asama, H.; Kuroda, Y.; Endo, I. "Self-organizing collective robots with morphogenesis in a vertical plane", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 1998) On page(s): 2858 - 2863 vol.4, 16-20 May 1998, Leuven, Belgium, 1998

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